captivity

restraint; hindrance; coercion (compulsion); cohibition, constraint, repression; discipline, control., confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade., arrest, arrestation; custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency., curb (means of restraint); lettres de cachet., limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly; prohibition., prisoner; repressionist.

restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral(l), inthral(l), bethral(l); restrict; debar (hinder); constrain; coerce (compel); curb, control; hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds; hold in leash, hold in leading strings; withhold., keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit; inhibit, cohibit., enchain; fasten (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters., confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes., arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate.

restrained, constrained; imprisoned; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody (prisoner); cohibitive; coactive (compulsory)., stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound., ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; "cabined cribbed confined" [Macbeth]; in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.

servility; slavery (subjection); obsequiousness; subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation; genuflection (worship); fawning; tuft- hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism; sycophancy (flattery); humility., sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunkey, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger-on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface [U. S], heeler [U. S.], homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler.

cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself; worship., sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment., pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of., go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with the hare and run with the hounds.

hat in hand, cap in hand.